Senior Applied Scientist: Robot Navigation & Planning
The Robot Age
Sunnyvale, CA · Posted October 20, 2026
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Amazon Robotics is hiring a senior applied scientist focused on robot navigation. The role combines learning-based planning, foundation models for embodied agents, and control-theoretic methods such as model-predictive trajectory planning. The work targets navigation systems...